Myrtle Wilson

Myrtle Wilson (died 1922) was the wife of George B. Wilson and the mistress of Tom Buchanan. She was killed in a car accident in 1922.

Biography
Myrtle Wilson was born in Long Island, New York in the 1890s, and she married mechanic George B. Wilson in 1910. She despised her husband, who she saw as dumb, and she had an affair with wealthy East Egg resident Tom Buchanan during the 1920s. In 1922, she was struck and killed by a car driven by Daisy Fay as she rushed out onto the road to greet the driver, who she thought was her lover (Buchanan had used the car to drive into New York City, and Fay used it to drive back). Jay Gatsby, the owner of the car, was later killed in a murder-suicide by George Wilson after he falsely assumed that Gatsby was the driver at the time of the accident.